"Unlike the intervenors here, the government does not contend that there are legitimate government interests in "creating a legal structure that promotes the raising of children by both of their biological parents" or that the government's interest in 'responsible procreation' justifies Congress's decision to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman."

--U.S. Department of Justice, in its brief for Smelt v. United States, one of the lawsuits challenging the Defense of Marriage Act

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